Vindullus fugiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge 1890) Rheims 2019
- Dataset
- On the huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Rheims, Cristina Anne (2019): On the huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4544 (4): 572-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.7
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Sparassidae
- genus
- Vindullus
- species
- Vindullus fugiens
description
Description. Male (holotype): Prosoma brown, reddish brown at eye area and along lateral margins of cephalic region; thoracic striae slightly darker; fovea brown; eye borders black. Chelicerae reddish brown. Legs and palps brown; leg metatarsi and tarsi dark brown. Labium and endites reddish brown. Sternum brownish orange with brown margins. Opisthosoma yellowish brown with no distinct pattern. Total length 12.8. Prosoma: 6.0 long, 6.1 wide. Opisthosoma: 6.6 long, 5.0 wide. Eyes arranged in two straight rows; diameters: 0.46, 0.45, 0.35, 0.40; interdistances: 0.37, 0.22, 0.60, 0.73, 0.65, 0.45. Chelicerae with two promarginal teeth, the basal one smallest, four retromarginal teeth, the basal one smallest, and four strong setae at the base of fang. Legs (2143): I: 37.6 (10.3, 3.8, 10.2, 10.5, 2.8); II: 40.0 (10.8, 4.0, 11.0, 11.4, 2.8); III: 28.3 (8.5, 3.1, 7.5, 7.0, 2.2); IV: 30.4 (9.3, 3.1, 8.0, 8.0, 2.0). Leg spination: femora I – III: p 1 - 1 - 1, d 0 - 1 - 1, r 1 - 1 - 1; femur IV: p 1 - 1 - 1, d 0 - 1 - 1, r 0 - 0 - 1; patellae I – IV: 0; tibiae I – IV: p 1 - 0 - 1, r 1 - 0 - 1, v 2 - 2 - 0; metatarsi I – IV: p 1 - 1 - 0, r 1 - 1 - 0, v 2 - 2 - 0. Palp: tibia approximately half the length of cymbium with one prolateral and one retrolateral strong spine; cymbium with small retroproximal protrusion, oval alveolus and dorsal chemosensory scopula; embolus filiform (Figs 1 – 3). Female: Unknown.
description
Figs 1 – 3, 27
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Males of V. fugiens (O. Pickard- Cambridge) comb. nov. are distinguished from those of the remaining Vindullus species, except V. guatemalensis (Keyserling) comb. nov., in having palps with a loosely spiraled tegulum, a triangular projection at the base of the embolus, a long, laminar serrated projection and a prolateral spiny field (Figs 1 – 3). They are distinguished from V. guatemalensis by the presence of a laminar, rounded, hyaline conductor (absent in V. guatemalensis) and by the small spiny field, restricted to the prolateral surface of the tegulum (extending ventrally in V. guatemalensis, Figs 4 – 6). Females are unknown.
distribution
Distribution. Guatemala. Only known from the type locality.